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When entering a web site name in navigation toolbar firefox will fill in the prefix & sufix. example enter google and firefox willadd www and .com. While in 5.8 soho it will not fill in complete www and .comany ideas.Thanks

Wherever I use quotation marks in the following lines, make sure to omit them when actually entering something, e.g. for "about:config" you just enter about:config.

So, open a tab and type in "about:config" in the address field (where www.google.com or whatever usually goes).

Then enter "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" in the "Filter" field. Only that line will appear, and under "Value" it should say "true". If it says "false" double click that line, which will change it to "true."

Next in the "Filter" field enter "browser.fixup.alternate.prefix". This should have "www." under "Value." If it doesn't, double click the line, a box will appear where you should enter "www." (make sure to enter the ".").

Next in the "Filter" field enter "browser.fixup.alternate.suffix". This should have ".com" under "Value." If it doesn't, double click the line and enter ".com"I hope this helps.

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"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." - Linus Torvalds, April 1991

When entering a web site name in navigation toolbar firefox will fill in the prefix & sufix. example enter google and firefox willadd www and .com. While in 5.8 soho it will not fill in complete www and .comany ideas.Thanks

If the address is a www.somesite.com, you can writesomesitein the Firefox address box and then hit Control-Enter. Firefox will add the www and the .com. If it's a .net address, you can hit Shift-Enter to complete it. If it's a .org, Control-Shift-Enter will complete it.

For more keyboard shortcuts, see Help menu, Help Contents, and scroll down to Keyboard Shortcuts. --GrannyGeek

Thanks, GrannyGeek, for giving an answer to skinnum's question which I didn't know.

I don't want to be a pest about this, but the original question is still unanswered. In my 5.8 Std. install Firefox will automatically add www. and .com if I type in, for example, "google" without any keyboard shortcuts. For skinnum this doesn't work in 5.8 SOHO even though the about:config settings are correct.

I realize that this is a very minor issue but I'm curious if anybody else out there is having this occur, and if we can find out what the cause is.

If not, no big deal, because as I said it's a very minor issue.

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"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." - Linus Torvalds, April 1991

I use 5.8 Standard, not SOHO, so I have no clue about how Firefox works in SOHO. In Standard, it often adds a www and .com, but sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it depends on whether I've gone to that URL before.

That is a google related feature. In my VL std install, Firefox redirects me to the first place of a google search, as in the "I'm feeling lucky" button. If you look careful, you will see "waiting for www.google.com" before the redirecting. But it doesnt do it with every term. If I write "linux" I get www.linux.org, but if I write "banana" I get a google search results page. If I write "micro" I get a wikipedia page abot the prefix micro-, nice programming. I dont know how this work, but you can enable it setting "keyword.URL" to "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=". "keyword.enable" must be "true" too.

Well, I still can't say about Firefox, but in case it is in anyway enlightening to the issue, in SeaMonkey, the preference is in "Smart Browsing" and called "Domain Guessing". The description on the checkbox goes: "Automatically add "www." and ".com" to the location if a web page isn't found". It is a separate preference to the "Location Bar Autocomplete" stuff.

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